Matter

In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilisations throughout the greater galaxy. Concealing her new identity - and her particular set of abilities - might be a dangerous strategy. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else's war is never a simple matter.

ISBN 1841494194   Pages 656 ISBN13 9781841494197 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 508 Publisher Little, Brown Book Group   Published in London Imprint Orbit   Previous ISBN 9781841494173 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 196 Publication date 05 Feb 2009   Width (mm) 128 DEWEY 823.914   Spine width (mm) 42 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

You can always expect the unexpected with an Iain M. Banks novel. So sit back and enjoy a tale with more than a twist or three in Matter. For a start, it's a rattling good story: a man accused of something he didn't do. Lots of action, lots of mind-boggling imaginative thought in this excellent piece of SF, read by Toby Longworth Daily Express You can, if you must, draw clever comparisons between the conflicts in Matter and what's happening in Iraq. Or you can just sit back and listen to Toby Longworth's tongue-in-cheek reading of a very funny book The Guardian Widescreen, baroque science fiction ... Another fine addition to Banks's Culture series Guardian There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keenness The Times

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